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SubjectRe: Linux 2.2.11pre4
stevev@efn.org (Steve VanDevender)  wrote on 05.08.99 in <14249.53035.966990.283864@tzadkiel.efn.org>:

> Alexander Viro writes:
> > On 4 Aug 1999, Moritz Franosch wrote:
> >
> > > Personally I really like info better than HTML and man, because with
> > > emacs it's very easy to browse with the keyboard, you can search the
> >
> > With what? EMACS is an optional thing. troff is not lightweight too, but
> > it doesn't come anywhere to the EMACS ballpark.
>
> The texinfo-3.12 package comes with a reasonably lightweight
> standaline info browser called 'info', which is only about 100K
> or so.

Someone in this thread brought up pinfo, which I have since tried, and
it's really nice. At least the way it's done in the Debian package, it
also reads man, it uses highlighting sensibly (the absence of which in
info docs has been irritating me for a long time), and it tries to turn
references into links ... oh, and it can follow URLs by invoking lynx.

MfG Kai

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